The WORST episodes of Hard Time (2011)
Every episode of Hard Time (2011) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Hard Time (2011)!
Ever wonder what life is like inside a maximum security prison? In this National Geographic series, producers lived within the prison walls, capturing the day to day life of inmates and correctional officers.
#1 - Truth and Lies
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/2013
For the officers that handle the inmates on a daily basis at Last Vegas's Clark County Detention Center it can be hard to tell who is lying and who is telling the truth.
#2 - Love Behind Bars
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/17/2012
Life, lust, and love continue on even after arrest.
#3 - Back on the Streets
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/8/2011
Almost all of the inmates in Ohio's Ross Correctional Institution for drugs, robbery or murder will be released back into the community someday. But withdrawing from the temptations of gang life, gambling and dark hustles is a steep challenge. After years behind bars, prison can seem more like home than the outside world. The last few months of an inmate's sentence are a time for him to unlearn the prison mentality. Follow inmates nearing the end of weeks, months or years of imprisonment
#4 - Stress Box
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/30/2012
Las Vegas can be full of vices - both legal and illegal. Break the law and you're hauled into the Clark County Detention Center.
#5 - Judgement Day
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/25/2012
At the Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) in Las Vegas, inmates all have one thing in common: They are waiting for their day in court.
#6 - Mental Hell
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/16/2012
The number of addicts and mentally ill people in prisons and jails is an issue throughout the country and Clark County Detention Center in Las Vegas is no exception.
#7 - Come On Vacation, Leave On Probation
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/28/2012
Get picked up on the Vegas strip and you'll end up in Clark County Detention Center -- the jail where many of the inmates arrive drunk or high.
#8 - Revolving Door
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/2/2012
The Clark County Detention Center (CCDC) receives scores of repeat offenders, most hooked on drugs and alcohol.
#9 - The Outsiders
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/23/2011
The Jackson and Coastal prisons, both in Georgia absorb a flood of new inmates.
#10 - Female Offenders
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/15/2011
Forget what you thought you knew about women behind bars: theyre the fastest growing prison population in America, and one of the toughest to manage. At the Ohio Reformatory for Women, the system is tested daily by every kind of female offender: from capital murderers, to nursery mothers - and everything in between. Behind these bars, there are "pseudo-families" instead of gangs, infants being raised by inmates, and a complicated web of contraband trades and power plays. This is a world of women unlike any youve ever seen.
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV#11 - Prison Gangs
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/1/2011
In prison, every day is a fight for survival. An inmate's most important weapon may not be a shank or a razor, but instead a gang membership. With more than 1,400 classified gangs in the Ohio prison system, inmates are joining up in alarming numbers.
Watch Now:Amazon#12 - Running the Joint
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/11/2012
At Las Vegas's main jail, Clark County Detention Center, inmates try as hard as possible to retain a sense of normalcy. And for many, that means keeping up their gang lifestyle. Well go inside one of CCDCs most difficult dormsan open housing unit filled with high-security inmates, repeat offenders, felons and gang members where life on the inside can be just as tough as life on the outside.
Watch Now:Amazon#13 - Against the Wall
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/22/2011
Enter the locked-down world of Ohio's intake prison. For the newly convicted, the Correctional Reception Center (CRC) in Orient, Ohio, is their last view of the free world. More than 14,000 inmates are sized up each year at CRC and moved on to serve out their sentences. From robbers to murders and rapists, CRC sees it all. And while most follow the rules and do their time peacefully, some inmates come in with their own agenda, ready to make trouble.
Watch Now:Amazon#18 - Worst of the Worst
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/15/2011
With more attacks on inmates and staff than any other facility in Ohio, Lucasville is the jail within the prison system. Fight, extort, run contraband or break the rules in any other prison in the state and you could be sent here. With some of the strictest controls of any prison, new arrivals at Lucasville spend 23 hours a day on lockdown with little movement and even fewer privileges. But even in such a restricted setting, the hustles and gambles of prison life continue.
Watch Now:Amazon#21 - Changes Behind Bars
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2009
Step into the extreme world of a state correctional system, where transformation often occurs and starts physically, sometimes in the form of an illegal prison tattoo, sometimes becoming what some call "the female gender" behind bars.
Watch Now:Amazon#22 - Breaking the Rules
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/8/2011
A high-stakes game of cat and mouse plays out at Ross Correctional Institution in Ohio. On one side, you have the inmates: men who've spent a lifetime breaking the rules and outwitting the system. On the other is a team of officers who monitor every corner of the prison and work to catch the offenders red-handed. There are rule breakers: a drug hustler trying to run his game behind bars, an old-school inmate, a jailhouse lawyer subverting the system and a lone wolf with one too many strikes.
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